So I finally started

It is Labor Day weekend and I have wanted to start this blog for some time now. Not sure if it will be read by anyone but it seems a good outlet for speaking about the things that I love and enjoy when I am not working 40+ hours a week. My family and cooking. Why write about this? Over the years, I keep getting asked this question.."You make dinner almost every night from scratch and your kids eat it?? "Then comes the next inevitable.."I could never do that its too hard and my kids won't eat it!!!!" During the week nothing I make is hard, and while they may not eat everything, your kids will eat most of it, and over time you learn what type of flavors they like and fine tune the meals to suit.

I cannot tell you how all this came about because I truly don't know. When I got married 18 1/2 years ago to my husband Mike, I would pull out the cookbooks we got as gifts and I would make recipes and play house. As I am from Chicago, back in the 90's one of the standby wedding gifts was a Chicago deep dish pizza set. We made that pizza so often that before long I knew the recipe by heart. It was not always good food though, there was one stand out moment in particular where I tried to make sweet and sour fish......not even going to go there....

Today we have 4 kids and 2 dogs and we all have developed a love for cooking each in our own right. Mike is the recipe developer extraordinaire, Alex is the newly decorated pasta chef ( making ravioli from scratch), Jessica will make anything as long as it is chocolate based, and Samantha....well she has many talents in the kitchen, she truly does, but I think her number one talent at 10 years old is making the best omelette's in the house.  Matthew at 16 month has a very immature palette :) dog food being his favorite.

My goal is to write as often as possible, sharing our routines, recipes, successes and failures, in the hopes that you may one day have a better time leading your family down the road of "Good Food in Good Time."